Our Pioneer Cemetery Concerns Iowa law defines a Pioneer Cemetery as one in which there have been 12 or fewer burials in the past 50 years. If you know of a cemetery that qualifies for this distinction, and would like to have it recognized, please contact the State Association for the Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries to have it recorded. See our PURPOSE below.
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Carter Award Winners Nominations due July 1 each year
Applications due 9-1 each year
(No applications received in 2009 E-Mail List: To join the Iowa Cemeteries e-mail list hosted by SAPIC member Fred Reese, sending an e-mail message to IA-Cemeteries-L-request@rootsweb.com Leave the subject area blank. Put only the word subscribe within the message and nothing else. You will receive a confirmation that you have been subscribed to the list, along with instructions on participating. There are hundreds of folks already on this list who monitor it and post to it, so every post is not necessarily from a member of SAPIC. Most folks who are on the list are genealogists searching for relatives or directions to a cemetery in the state or have questions about our cemeteries. Everyone does what they can to answer them. Suggestions for forming a Cemetery Commission SAPIC's PURPOSE SAPIC was organized in 1996 with the following goals:
A. To identify all
cemeteries in Iowa Researchers may submit photos and transcriptions of their ancestor's gravestones and connect with yet-to-be-discovered cousins in the process. This site, which is hosted by RootsWeb, was last updated Nov. 3, 2009
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